'Skyhook' and other CIA spyware

October 16, 2012

Central Intelligence Agency

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The CIA covertly published this Russian-language edition of Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago," a love story set against the backdrop of the Soviet Revolution. The Nobel Prize committee needed to read the text as it was originally written, but Soviet authorities refused to publish the book, which they considered “a malicious libel of the USSR.” Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. Pasternak initially accepted the prize, but the Soviet government soon forced him to decline.

Central Intelligence Agency

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The CIA covertly published this Russian-language edition of Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago," a love story set against the backdrop of the Soviet Revolution. The Nobel Prize committee needed to read the text as it was originally written, but Soviet authorities refused to publish the book, which they considered “a malicious libel of the USSR.” Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. Pasternak initially accepted the prize, but the Soviet government soon forced him to decline.